undoubtedly the craziest decision i’ve ever made in my life - to fly halfway across the world for @GirlsGeneration fanmeet. but no regrets at all, got to see ot8 soshi live (my first!!!), and meet so many sones… my heart is sooo full💗
and now, goodbye kr! see you again soon🫶🏼
this...
as much as i can understand the natural inclination to want to prioritise local fans, doing this at the expense of international fans is unfair (to me at least). the focus should have been on filtering out scalpers from real fans, and not between local/intl fans.
This one is gonna be a VERY long tweet.
So.. I feel quite torn about this new ticketing policy..
As someone who currently lives in Korea, I can see how this policy would benefit me. But as a long-time fan who spent most of my fangirling years as an international fan living outside Korea, I also know how frustrating this must feel. International fans already have to travel farther, spend more, and deal with more barriers just to watch their favorite artists. Even before this policy, fans living outside Korea were already in a less advantageous position, especially when it came to ticketing.
I don't have detailed proof, but from having experienced both sides, I think it's fair to say that ticketing from within Korea tends to be less prone to network errors or payment issues. And technically, those factors alone can increase someone's chance of successfully securing a ticket.
At the same time, I have noticed something interesting during the past two years I've lived here. For several concerts I attended (or tried to attend), there were many cases where fans residing in Korea failed to get tickets, while fans from other countries managed to secure them🥲 I've also been in that position myself. Even though I accessed the Korean ticketing page, used my Korean residential info, and signed up through the local system, I still failed to get a ticket on my own and eventually had to obtain it through someone living outside Korea.
So in the end.... I feel like the issue is not simply about whether someone has access to a Korean ticketing account or not. Oftentimes, the people who succeed are the ones who have mastered the 'tricks of the trade', which unfortunately..... Not necessarily through fair means, sometimes.
Rather than dividing fans into domestic vs overseas/global, I genuinely think companies should focus more on developing and maintaining a system that gives every fan a fair chance to access tickets (and MDs too..) regardless of where they live. Because, to be brutally honest, I have a gut feeling that even with this new policy, people will eventually find new ways to bypass or exploit the system 🫤
If companies really decide to move forward with this kind of priority system, then I think it is only fair for them to also build a mechanism that ensures this homeland privilege actually goes to the right audience in the right proportion, instead of scalpers or irresponsible buyers. At the same time, global fans should also be given a fair and clear access, because they are also an important part of the audience and market.
getting discounted for being a foreigner, when in contrary, it actually shows how much more you need to (and have) put in to support the artists makes it sad. the least that needs to be done to protect intl fans is to have seats reserved for the global sale. please SM…
just watched tiffany’s lmj service and begin again and omg i’ve really missed singer tiffany so much… can’t wait for the full album to be out soon!!!! 🥹🥹🥹
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